Category: Money

Pissing my money away

I decided to throw some money into my Roth IRA the other day, just for old times’ sake. I bought 95 shares of DayStar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSTI). The transaction went through this morning and the stock is up a little already. Not too bad I guess. On the other hand, the rest of my [...]

Free tax prep

If you haven’t heard, you can file your taxes free of charge at http://taxact.com. I did it and I wasn’t charged a penny, not even for e-filing. My tax forms are fairly simple and I found the site to be easy to use. I’m not sure how it would work for more complicated forms, but [...]

Money matters

I have recently been struggling with my finances. The hard part is figuring out where everything is going. I was basically paying for everything with my debit card and not keeping track of how much I was spending. It turns out I was spending more that I was making. Because I don’t have a credit [...]

Bill time!!

I have a bunch of bills due about right now. I have the money to pay them, but for some reason I’m just not doing it. I’m hoping that if I write about it I will get motivated to do something. I feel like I need another vacation.